Tuesday, 20 November 2012

Hospital chiefs get a light grilling from town council

Representatives from Peninsula Community Health attended tonight's meeting of Launceston Town Council to update members on the situation at Launceston Hospital.

It
wasn't quite to full roasting that PCH got at the recent scrutiny committee but was at least a light grilling. Some members, including
Graeme Facks-Martin, said that they were not satisfied with the
explanations given.

One
significant change since the scrutiny meeting is the number of beds
currently closed. At the time of the scrutiny meeting it was said that
seven were out of commission. Now that number has risen to ten.

A
second change from the scrutiny session is the hoped for date for
re-opening the beds. Then it was hoped that they might be back open by
the end of the year or early January. Now it appears that PCH wants to
get some of the beds open by mid or end of January, but not all of them.
The PCH reps were invited to come back to the council and report again
if the beds were not fully open by February.

From
my own point of view, I'm still dubious about the ability of PCH as an
organisation to successfully manage our community hospitals. All we can
hope is that this is enough of a shot across the bows to elicit real
change in that organisation.

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